Looking across versions: L. Mozart, Violonschule (1756)
Leopold Mozart, Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756) is a key to performance practice in the eighteenth century. It is to the violin as C.P.E. Bach is to the keyboard, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (1753) and Johann Joachim Quantz to the flute, Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen (1752).
The first English translation was published in 1948, with a preface by Albert Einstein, after nearly two centuries and many versions:
- First edition (Augsburg: J.J. Lotter und Sohn, 1756)
- Dutch translation (Haarlem, 1766)
- French translation (Paris, 1770)
- Reprint of French translation (1783)
- Second edition (Augsburg, 1769/70)
- Third edition (Augsburg, 1787)
- Fourth edition (Augsburg, 1791)
- Fourth revised edition (Augsburg, 1800)
- (Leipzig: Kühnel, 1804)
- (Wien: Cappi, 1806)
- (Leipzig: Bey C.F. Peters, 1817)
- English translation (London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1948)
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Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española
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Call Number: Selch MT582 .S2 1697Publication Date: Zaragoza: herederos de Diego Dormer, 1697 -
Guitarra española, y vandola en dos maneras de guitarra, castellana, y cathalana de cinco ordenes
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Call Number: Selch MT582 .A54 1761Publication Date: Gerona: Joseph Bró, 1761 -
Compleat instructions for the guitar
Call Number: Selch MT582 .C66 1785Publication Date: London: Longman and Broderip, [1780] -
A treatise on the theory and practice of music
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Call Number: Selch MT6 .G44 1786Publication Date: London: printed for the author ..., [1786] -
Nova arte de viola
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Call Number: Selch MT585 .R52 1789Publication Date: Coimbra: na Real officina da Universidade, 1789 -
Vollständiges, theoretisch-praktisches auf Grundsätze der Akustik, Tonkunst und Mathematik
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML802 .W52 1828Publication Date: Ilmenau: B.F. Voigt, 1828 -
A history of the guitar
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML1015.G9 B28 1855Publication Date: New York: W.B. Tilton, 1855
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Musica instrumentalis deudsch
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Call Number: Selch ML171 .A2613 1529Publication Date: Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529 -
Musurgia seu praxis musicae
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Call Number: Selch ML171 .L94 1536Publication Date: Argentorati [Strasbourg]: apud Ioannem Schottum, 1536 -
Musick’s monument
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Call Number: Selch MT640.2 .M23 1676Publication Date: London: printed by T. Ratcliffe and N. Thompson for the author, 1676 -
Historisch-theoretisch und practische Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML1010 .B2 1727Publication Date: Nürnberg: bey J.F. Rüdiger, 1727 -
A new and complete directory to the art of playing on the patent dital-harp
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Call Number: Selch MT542 .L55 1819Publication Date: 2nd edition. London (8 Foley place, Cavendish Sqe): printed for the author, [1819]
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Dissertation historique sur la vielle
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML760 .T38 1741Publication Date: Paris: J.B. Lamesle, 1741
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Musica instrumentalis deudsch
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Call Number: Selch ML171 .A2613 1529Publication Date: Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529
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The division violist; or, An introduction to the playing upon a ground
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Call Number: Selch MT337 .S46 1659Publication Date: London: W. Godbid, printer, 1659
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A brief introduction to the skill of musick
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Call Number: Selch MT7 .P72 1660Publication Date: London: W. Godbid for John Playford, 1660 -
Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT49 .S42 1667Publication Date: Editio secunda. London: printed by W. Godbid for H. Brome, 1667
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Musick’s monument
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Call Number: Selch MT640.2 .M23 1676Publication Date: London: printed by T. Ratcliffe and N. Thompson for the author, 1676
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Defense de la basse de viole contre les entréprises du violon et les prétentions du violoncel
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Call Number: Selch ML760.V565 L42 1740Publication Date: Amsterdam: chez Pierre Mortier, 1740 -
Traité de la viole, qui contient une dissertation curieuse sur son origine
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT338 .R7 1687Publication Date: A Paris: par Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique, 1687
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A new musical grammar, and dictionary: or, a general introduction to the whole art of musick
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Call Number: Selch MT6 .T17 1756Publication Date: 3rd edition. London: printed by Robert Brown for James Hodges, also sold by the author and by his son, 1756 -
The instrumental assistant
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Call Number: Selch MT170 .H65 1801Publication Date: Printed at Exeter, New Hampshire: by H. Ranlet, [1801?] -
The instrumental director
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Call Number: Selch MT172 .I59 1836Publication Date: 4th edition. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters and Smith, 1836
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A brief introduction to the skill of musick
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Call Number: Selch MT7 .P72 1660Publication Date: London: W. Godbid for John Playford, 1660
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The art of playing on the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .P88 1731Publication Date: London: Engrav’d, printed and sold by T. Cobb; J. Simpson, [between 1731 and 1750]
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The modern musick-master: or, the universal musician
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Call Number: Selch MT6.P744 M6 1730Publication Date: London: Bow Church Yard, 1730 [1731 printing?]
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Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello and harpsicord
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262.P49 I6Publication Date: [London, 1751?] -
The art of playing on the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262.P49 I6Publication Date: London: printed for the author by J. Johnson..., 1751 -
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A new musical grammar, and dictionary: or, a general introduction to the whole art of musick
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Call Number: Selch MT6 .T17 1756Publication Date: 3rd edition. London: printed by Robert Brown for James Hodges, also sold by the author and by his son, 1756
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Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .M9 1756Publication Date: Augsburg: J.J. Lotter, 1756 -
The Compleat tutor for the violin
Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .C58 1760Publication Date: London: printed for & sold by Thompson & Son, 1760
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Grondig onderwys in het behandelen der viool
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .M92125 1766Publication Date: Te Haerlem: by Joannes Enschede, 1766 -
An introduction to the art of playing on the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262.P49 I6Publication Date: London: printed and sold for the author, by Mess. Randall and Abell..., [1767?] -
An accurate method to attain the art of playing ye violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .T295 1770Publication Date: London: Longman and Broderip, [1770?] -
Gründliche Violinschule
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Call Number: MT262 .M9 1770Publication Date: 2. verm. Aufl. Augsburg: gedruckt bey J.J. Lotter, 1770 -
Méthode raisonnée pour apprendre à jouer du violon
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Call Number: MT262 .M94 1783Publication Date: A Paris: chez Mr. Boyer, au Magazin de Musique, rue de Richelieu a la Clef d'Or, passage du Caffé de Foy et chez Made. Le Menu rue du Roule, à la Clef d'Or, [1785–1790?] -
Leopold Mozarts Hochfürstl. Salzburgischen Vice-Capellmeisters gründliche Violinschule
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Call Number: MT262 .M9 1791Publication Date: Vierte Auflage. Frankfurt und Leipzig: [publisher not identified] -
L’art du violon
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .C28 1801Publication Date: Paris: chez Decombe, [1801]
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The instrumental assistant
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Call Number: Selch MT170 .H65 1801Publication Date: Printed at Exeter, New Hampshire: by H. Ranlet, [1801?]
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Méthode simple et facile, par demandes et par réponses, pour apprendre rapidement et sans confusion la musique
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT7 .F12 1804Publication Date: A Paris: chez Michelet, imprimeur-libraire, an 12 (1804)
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Violinschule, oder, Anweisung die Violin zu spielen
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Call Number: MT262 .V56 1806Publication Date: Neue umgearbeitete und vermehrte Ausgabe. Wien: bey Johann Cappi, 1806 -
Méthode elementaire pour le violon
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT265 .M37 1810Publication Date: Paris: chez Frey, [around 1810]
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The theory and practice of the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT260 .J68Publication Date: London: printed for Birchall & Co. [1812?]
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Saggio teorico-pratico-musicale
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Call Number: Selch MT55 .C6 1819 vol. 1Publication Date: Torino: dai tipografi e libraj vedova Pomba e figli, [1819]
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A treatise on the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .P13 1820Publication Date: 3rd edition. London: J. Reynolds, [1820?]
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Vollständiges, theoretisch-praktisches auf Grundsätze der Akustik, Tonkunst und Mathematik
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML802 .W52 1828Publication Date: Ilmenau: B.F. Voigt, 1828
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The instrumental director
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Call Number: Selch MT172 .I59 1836Publication Date: 4th edition. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters and Smith, 1836
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A complete system for the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT265 .H16 1846Publication Date: New York: S.T. Gordon, 1846
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Winner’s improved method for the violin
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Call Number: Selch MT262 .W56 1854Publication Date: Philadelphia (922 Chestnut Street): Lee & Walker, 1854
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Nouvelle méthode de la mécanique progressive du jeu de violon
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262 .C19313 1856Publication Date: London: R. Cocks, [1856]
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Methodischer Leitfaden für Violinlehrer
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT260 .H485 1857Publication Date: Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1857.vii, 54 p.: music; 18 cm.
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Ueber Rudolph Kreutzer’s Etüden
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT260 .H49 1858Publication Date: Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1858
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Das Büchlein von der Geige
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT260 .T75 1864Publication Date: Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt, [1864 or 1865]
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Führer durch den Violin-Unterricht
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML128.V4 T7 1886Publication Date: Leipzig: J. Schuberth, 1886
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Katechismus des Violinspiels
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT260 .S38 1889Publication Date: Leipzig: M. Hesse, 1889
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A letter from the late Signor Tartini to Signora Maddalena Lombardini (now Signora Sirmen)
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind ML410.T18 A42 1913Publication Date: London: W. Reeves, 1913
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Saggio teorico-pratico-musicale
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Call Number: Selch MT55 .C6 1819 vol. 1Publication Date: Torino: dai tipografi e libraj vedova Pomba e figli, [1819]
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The instrumental director
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Call Number: Selch MT172 .I59 1836Publication Date: 4th edition. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters and Smith, 1836
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Rules for playing in a true taste on the violin, German flute, violoncello and harpsicord
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262.P49 I6Publication Date: [London, 1751?]
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The art of playing on the violin
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT262.P49 I6Publication Date: London: printed for the author by J. Johnson..., 1751
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The compleat tutor for the violoncello
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT305 .C89 1760zPublication Date: London: printed for & sold by C.S. Thompson, 1760
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A treatise on the theory and practice of music
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Call Number: Selch MT6 .G44 1786Publication Date: London: printed for the author ..., [1786]
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The theory and practice of fingering the violoncello
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Call Number: Selch MT302 .G86 1790Publication Date: 2nd edition. London: printed for the author & sold by him, [between 1790 and 1819]
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Saggio teorico-pratico-musicale
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Call Number: Selch MT55 .C6 1819 vol. 1Publication Date: Torino: dai tipografi e libraj vedova Pomba e figli, [1819]
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The instrumental director
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Call Number: Selch MT172 .I59 1836Publication Date: 4th edition. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters and Smith, 1836
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Essai sur le doigté du violoncelle et sur le conduite de l’archet
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Call Number: 787.3 D928EEPublication Date: London: R. Cocks, [1852]
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Katechismus des Violoncellspiels
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Call Number: VSA–Goodkind MT300 .S382 1893Publication Date: London: Augener, [1893?]
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Principj di musica teorico-pratici
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Call Number: Selch MT6.P26 P8 1790Publication Date: Firenze (20 Via della Condotta): Giuseppe Volpini, [between 1790 and 1815?] -
The instrumental director
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Call Number: Selch MT172 .I59 1836Publication Date: 4th edition. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters and Smith, 1836
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A new and complete system of music: or, general instructions for the piano forte, organ, pedal harp & c.
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Call Number: MT222 .D39 1815Publication Date: London: Joseph Davis, [1815?]
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Instructions for the piano forte
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Call Number: Selch MT222 .C72 1821Publication Date: New York (126 Broadway): W. Dubois, [1821] -
Traité général sur l’art de jouer de la harpe
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Call Number: Selch MT542 .D48 1812Publication Date: Paris (8 rue de Seine, fg. St. Gn., près le Pont des Arts): chez l’auteur, [between 1812 and 1838]